At a time when the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) is putting pressure on consumers to pay electricity bills on time, its sister concern Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company Limited (MSETCL or MahaTransco) has been found to have wasted consumer money by not utilising a 400 kilovolt substation that was installed seven years ago at Hinjewadi IT Park.
A Right to Information (RTI) query by city-based civic activist Vivek Velankar has found that the said substation – constructed at Hinjewadi IT Park in 2016 by MahaTransco to provide uninterrupted electricity supply to the Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park in Hinjewadi – has not been used ever since. Velankar also found that MahaTransco has now initiated the process to relocate the substation’s interconnecting transformer (ICT)-1 to Jejuri substation and ICT-2 to Kalwa substation.
